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When Actors Give Back Stolen Land

In this podcast produced by Remember the Future, we learn the story of a group of actors in Maine who decided to repair historic wrongs in their own community through returning land while also working to be in meaningful,...

What is ‘Communal Living’ and is it Right for Me?

While the US and many other countries experiencing impossibly rising house costs, loneliness has also been recently declared a public health crisis. Many of us are also seeking more sustainable ways to live to better support the health of...

Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs

This article from Nonprofit Quarterly offers us a glimpse into time-tested traditions we can learn from the Bolivian people for practicing interdependence, mutuality, and self-governance to meet community needs.   Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of...

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Politics and Policy

What does an economy that works for all people and the planet look like? And what are the policies that can support and protect such an economy? We are living through an historic moment where a number of crises– climate...

The Story of the Clouds and the Forests

There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this… We are headed in the wrong direction and there’s very little time to reverse course.  Because of the scale and speed of the change that...

The Ghana Susu: Reimagining Financial Development

Focused on local economies, the centuries-old system liberates communities from foreign, ‘expert-led’ development and the trap of dependence.   In the wake of global anti-racism movements and a growing awareness of the problematic dynamics of colonial knowledge-making in international development, governments, academics...

Why Social Coops Offer Potential Transformation of Care & More

Last week, the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), Shareable, and a growing list of partners launched the first session of the Social Cooperative Academy. The Academy will consist of eight weekly sessions from May 1st to June 19 and...

Drawing from Indigenous Wisdom: Centering Life in Society & Economy

Building a "next system" to supplant the current systemic drivers of our economic and political crises should include the wisdom of Indigenous cultures rooted in non-capitalist social and economic forms that center life and nature. This panel discussion hosted...

How to Share: 350+ Guides to Help your Community Thrive

When we tap into the sharing power of our communities, we reclaim our own agency while opening our lives up to the joy and deep sustenance of mutually supportive relationships. And as we navigate the unpredictability of the economic...

When It Comes to Cultivating Connectedness and Social Innovation, Aim For Discoverables, Not Deliverables

John McKnight said, “A competent community creates space for what is unknowable about life.” Too often, however, philanthropists and funding opportunities emphasize a desire for outcomes that produce neat, tidy, and predictable deliverables but waste opportunities to learn about...

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When Actors Give Back Stolen Land

In this podcast produced by Remember the Future, we learn the story of a group of actors in Maine...